“PRESS PLAY” on LISA’s new EP

LISA’s new EP, “PRESS PLAY,” was released Oct. 23 to great excitement in my household of one. Other people were excited too: it was voted favorite new music of the week with a massive 87% of the vote in Billboard’s weekly new music poll. The first track, ““SaWaDiKa,” was released as a single Sept. 2. At over 111 million plays on Spotify as of Nov. 10, it’s LISA’s fifth most-streamed song out of around 45 individual tracks. About 150 of those streams were mine. I truly loved it on its own, so I was excited to see what the rest of the EP was like. It did not disappoint. ‘สวัสดีค่ะ’ in Thai, LISA’s native language, ‘sawadika’ is the anglicized spelling of a formal greeting used by Thai women, according to Capital FM. LISA is the lead rapper of BLACKPINK, one of the biggest K-pop groups of the last decade. So far her solo music has reflected this, with almost every song being predominantly rap, though she does sing in most of them as well.

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